In my collaboration with Dr Joanna Wheeler of TransformativeStory, we aim to support connections between the arts, humanities, and natural sciences via a creative practice-led methodology. Story-making is a form of collaborative artistic research in which artistic practice is both the method and the outcome of the inquiry. In story-making we experiment with a range of creative techniques designed to generate story ideas, refine them, and develop them into finished creative artefacts.
Until now, storytelling and story-making research has concentrated on human stories. However, we aim to explore the network of relations that includes human and non-human entities and objects such as ice, water, rock, scientific data and equipment, animal lives, historical artefacts, and technologies. Stories may be told through writing, visuals, sounds, movements, or objects, both digital and tactile. A story might have a familiar narrative structure and elements, or it might aim to challenge convention. It might take the form of a written script, short digital film or animation, visual sequence, soundscape, or something that combines these.
We exhibited some of our work at the British Academy’s public engagement event, the Summer Showcase, in 2025:
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